Global insights into water resources, climate change and governance

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 315-321

  Grafton, R Quentin ^a   Pittock, Jamie ^a   Davis, Richard ^b   Williams, John ^a   Fu, Guobin ^c   Warburton, Michele ^d   Udall, Bradley ^e   Mckenzie, Ronnie ^f   Yu, Xiubo ^g   Che, Nhu ^h   Connell, Daniel ^a   Jiang, Qiang ^a   Kompas, Tom ^a   Lynch, Amanda ⁱ   Norris, Richard ^j   Possingham, Hugh ^k   Quiggin, John ^k  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b not available   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f WRP Pty Ltd   (South Africa)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^h Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics   (Australia)

ⁱ BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; OUTFLOW; RIVER SYSTEM; TRADE-OFF; WATER RESOURCE;

AUSTRALIA; CHINA; COLORADO; MURRAY RIVER; ORANGE RIVER; UNITED STATES; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 84875703166     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1746     Document Type: Review

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